Yuval Chen: Bach, Liszt, Debussy, Scriabin, Ravel

Yuval Chen is an individual artist whose programs at Groupmuse NYC place the piano tradition in a clear historical line, moving from Bach through Liszt, Debussy, Scriabin, and Ravel. His repertoire often treats Bach’s contrapuntal writing as a reference point, then follows later composers as they stretch form, harmony, and color.

Johann Sebastian Bach, a luminary of the Baroque era, finds his masterpieces brought to life through dance by the New York City Ballet. At the heart of Lincoln Center, his timeless compositions are reimagined in a stunning ballet series known as "All Bach.

Franz Liszt appears on Groupmuse NYC programs as a touchstone for Rock/Pop-adjacent listening, where rhythm, harmony, and bold contrasts carry as much weight as melody. His music surfaces in events such as *Theodora Serbanescu-Martin: Pianistic Invocations: Liszt's Poetic Harmonies*, in collaboration with pianist Theodora Serbanescu-Martin.

Claude Debussy was a French composer whose music helped redraw the boundaries of late‑19th- and early‑20th‑century classical writing. He resisted easy labels, even as listeners and critics linked his work to the color and atmosphere of Impressionist painting.

Alexander Scriabin is a Russian composer and pianist whose music charts a rapid turn from late-Romantic lyricism toward a dissonant harmonic vocabulary shaped by his synesthetic ideas about color and sound.

Maurice Ravel appears in New York City programs at Groupmuse NYC, where his sets move between Rock/Pop framing and repertoire that nods to the concert hall. He has been billed alongside music by Astor Piazzolla and Johann Sebastian Bach, including events titled “Piazzolla, Bach, Ravel and more.